The recent announcement that the number of Alzheimer’s cases worldwide may quadruple by 2050 — to 106 million! — got us thinking. What do we actually know about this disease?

A huge amount of research has been published in the last few years. Unfortunately, this can make it hard for new voices to enter the debate, potentially delaying the articulation of an important revolutionary perspective. (Where to begin?)

To help overcome this barrier, the following is provided as a select bibliography of recent historical discussions — in peer reviewed journals — relating to Alois Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer, A. (1991). On certain peculiar diseases of old age. History of Psychiatry, 2(5 pt1), 74-101.

Möller, H. J. & Graeber, M. B. (1998). The case described by Alois Alzheimer in 1911: Historical and conceptual perspectives based on the clinical record and neurohistological sections. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 248(3), 111-122.

Morhardt, D. (2006). Educating medical students on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders: An overview of the Northwestern University Buddy Program. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 5(3), 448-456.

Page, S. & Fletcher, T. (2006). Auguste D. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 5(4), 571-583.

Rikkert, M. G. M. O., Teunisse, J.-P., & Vernooij-Dassen, M. (2005). One hundred years of Alzheimer’s disease and the neglected second lesson of Aloïs Alzheimer on multicausality in dementia. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, 20(5), 269-272.

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